Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Qualcomm has unveiled 4 new products for its Snapdragon 400 and 600 categories , the new chips , which are said to employ 64Bit architecture are said to roll into next gen products in the second half of this year .Snapdragon 415

This is the successor/sidekick to the Snapdragon 410 processor unveiled last year , the chip uses a 64bit architecture and it is built on the established 28nm Cortex A53 platform , this has a Adreno 405 GPU along with 4G LTE supportSpecs at a glance *Octa core - Cortex A53 cores @1.4Ghz *Adreno 405 GPU*Qualcomm X5 4G LTE modem (Cat4 speeds)*Camera support upto 13mp *Display support upto 720p *Video Recording upto 1080p @30fpsSnapdragon 425

This processor shares a similar platform with the Snapdragon 415 ,but its clockspeed and some hardware capabilities are increased over its smaller sibbling

These chips are some of the first to use the newly anounced Cortex A72 architecture , the new 600 series chips are said to be packing "next gen" Adreno series GPU's along with a Big Little configuration (4 high capacity cores + 4 lower capacity cores ) in the form of 4 Cortex A72 cores and 4 A53 cores